trader

noun trad·er \ ˈtrā-dər \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Examples: trader in a Sentence

Definition of trader

1 : a person whose business is buying and selling or barter: such as

a : merchant

b : a person who buys and sells (something, such as stocks or commodities futures) in search of short-term profits

2 : a ship engaged in the coastal or foreign trade

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Examples of trader in a Sentence

She is a stock trader.
early explorers and fur traders

Recent Examples of trader from the Web

It was auctioned by the Amsterdam Pearl Society in the Hague and bought by a Japanese trader, Agence France-Presse reports.

— Time, "The World's Largest Freshwater Pearl Is Sold at Auction for $374,000," 1 June 2018
Her first hire was Christine Moy, a former securities trader who worked for a stint under Masters.

— robert hackett, Fortune, "How JPMorgan Chase Learned to Love the Blockchain," 24 May 2018
China is the biggest importer of Myanmar hair, traders said.

— libby hogan, CNN, "Untangling Myanmar's trade in human hair," 16 May 2018
The Bailly-Chellberg History Hike is another great living history lesson, Wilkinson said, as visitors get to learn about Joseph Bailly, a fur trader who was one of Northwest Indiana's earliest settlers.

— michelle l. quinn, chicagotribune.com, "Climb, swim, camp and more at the Indiana Dunes," 13 May 2018
Bhargava, a former Wall Street trader from Greenwich, is one of four Democrats vying for the party’s nomination for state treasurer.

— neil vigdor, courant.com, "EMILY's List Endorses Dita Bhargava And Clare Kindall," 3 May 2018
Klingel, a retired commodities trader who lives in Homer and was born with cerebral palsy, was belted into a racing wheelchair pushed by Beardsley, a high school teacher and running coach who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

— beth bragg, Anchorage Daily News, "East High grads reunite at Boston Marathon, where one pushed the other 26.2 miles," 26 Apr. 2018
In an interview with me a few weeks after 9/11 — in which one of his closest friends and foundation partner, Frank Brennan, a bond trader with Cantor-Fitzgerald, was killed — Rusty talked about what brought him to his life's work after baseball.

— Sun-Sentinel.com, "New York Mets icon Rusty Staub dies at hospital in West Palm Beach at age 73," 29 Mar. 2018
The story centers on a successful bond trader called Sherman McCoy and a jaded reporter, Peter Fallow, who needs a career-saver of a scoop.

— janan ganesh, Town & Country, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," 8 Dec. 2017

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